Miko Kunoichi
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Chapter 6: Nicknames
"What?! They fought with Sasuke?" Kakashi asks in surprise, Jiraiya who had talked to Tsunade, is now informing the Hatake couple on what had happened on Team Kakashi's mission. Kagome who's sitting on the chair next to the bed stares at Jiraiya with wide eyes. "Their mission wasn't too…" Kagome trails off, unable to finish. She puts her head in her hands at the thought of Naruto fighting Sasuke.
Jiraiya nods his head as he leans against the wall behind him. "I know, the mission they were given was to capture Sasori's spy and bring him back to Konoha. Hopefully gathering intel on Orochimaru and Sasuke while they were at it. However Kabuto Yakushi, turned out to be the spy, and had already been freed from Sasori's Jutsu. It seems Orochimaru ment to use their meeting as a means of taking Sasori out, not knowing that he had already been killed. Naruto had confronted him and lost control of his emotions and unfortunately ran a muck. As soon as that forth tailed appeared, everything went straight to hell." Jiraiya closes his eyes and sighs heavily before continuing. "Orochimaru went head-to-head with him in his Kyūbi form, and was probably pushed to his limits, because he disappeared while Yamato was getting Naruto undercontrol. Yamato managed to have a clone follow them though. They eventually located Orochimaru's hideout and made their way inside, that's when they ran into Sasuke, and the battle assumed."
Kagome sighed and lifted her head up to look at Jiraiya, "What happened?" she asked the Gama Sennin. Jiraiya sighed heavily before talking. "Sasuke is significantly more powerful now. Naruto was apparently was no match for him."
Kakashi sighed and closed his eye. "I see."
"Don't let it get the two of you too down. He couldn't use his full power because of all the damage he took from morphing into the Kyūbi. Anywa-" Jiraiya tells the two.
"Oh, no." Kakashi interrupted him. "That's not the part that worries me." Kakashi leaned back to rest against his pillows as he looked at Jiraiya. "I figured Sasuke would be stronger at this point, I just, now that Naruto has realized how far ahead Sasuke is, he'll be hungry for more training. Not what I mean?"
"Oh yeah." Jiraiya chuckled.
"Anyway, we should just be glad they came home in one piece. " Kakashi commented. Kagome nods her head and stands up, she looks down at Kakashi. "I'm going to go and find Naruto and Sakura. You get some rest, and no more asking Jiraiya for those stupid books." she informed him, taking the two books on the table. After getting a pitiful nod from Kakashi, she leaves the room. Before shutting the door, she heard Jiraiya's loud laughter and Kakashi lazy voice muttering 'It's not funny'. Kagome rolled her eyes before continuing her way out of the hospital, towards the Hokage tower.
"Naruto! Sakura!" Kagome calls out when she saw Sakura, Naruto and the pale teen, not knowing his name yet, walking out of the Hokage tower. Naruto turns just in time to be jumped on by Kagome. "You're back! Now I'm not going to be bored anymore!" she exclaimed happily. Naruto blinks at the top of her head. "Kagome-nee!" he says, equally happy. He wraps his arms around her and sets her on her feet. Kagome smiles at Sakura, then blinks when looks at the other Shinobi.
"Kagome-nee, this is Sai." Naruto introduces her, "Sai, this is Kagome-nee." Kagome nods her head to Sai, before looking at Naruto. "You want to get some ramen?" Naruto lights up like a christmas tree, and nods his head. Kagome laughs and looks to Sakura and Sai, "You two want to come along?" she asks them.
"We can't Kagome-sensei, we have to get home and wait for our mission." Sakura sighs. Kagome pouted and waved her hand, dismissing the three. She waved to Sakura before continuing her way towards her apartment she shared with Kakashi. Once at her apartment, Kagome took out her key, unlocking the door. She took off her boots and made her way to master bedroom. She changed out of her day clothes and into her pajamas before getting into bed, and turning off the light.
The next day, Sakura and Kagome who the latter was asked to go with the chunin before they were going to see Kakashi, are at the library. Kagome, looks over and blinks when she sees Sai, "Oi, Sakura isn't that Sai?" the Chunin blinks to where Kagome had pointed, and nods her head. Sakura linked arms with Kagome after grabbing her book, and walked towards Sai. "Good morning, Sai." Kagome greeted.
Sai looks up from his book, stares at the two kunoichi, "Miss. Sakura, Mrs. Kagome." he greets politely. "I never pegged you for a reader." Sakura commented as her and Kagome move to sit across from Sai.
A blush forms across Sai's face at Sakura's comment, he looks away from the two. "Well, I guess I am." he mutters, he covers the books he was reading as the two sit down.
"Kagome-sensei, Naruto and I were on our way to visit Kakashi-sensei in the hospital, If you're free you wanna come?" Sakura asks her new teammate.
"Kakashi-sensei?" Sai says slowly, testing the name out.
"You're a part of Team Kakashi now kid, You've already met me, but I think you should meet the other team leader." Kagome snorts. Sai nods his head, agreeing to go with them to meet Kakashi. The three Shinobi put away the books that Sai had taken out to read, and they leave the library in search of Naruto.
"Naruto." Sakura called out once she spots her friend. Naruto blinks at looks up at his name being called. He smiles when he see Sakura, but it turns into a frown when he sees Sai and Kagome behind her.
"What's the deal? And why did you bring Sai and Kagome-nee with you?" Naruto whined.
Sakura chuckles at him. "I bumped into Kagome-sensei on the way, and then we bumped into Sai at the library." she told him. Naruto folds his hands behind his head and pouts.
"Aw man. I spent all this time working it out, so it'd be two of us alone together. Ya know like a date." he complained. Sakura puts her hands on her hips and glares down at her teammate. "If you have time to daydream like that, when you should be studying Ninjutsu."
"Yeah, like I'd study." Naruto snorts amused, "Like I would hang out in that stuffy old library like you." Sakura rolled her eyes at him.
"Naruto, you just can't train your body all the time. Your mind needs to get some exercise too. Sometimes you're such a idiot." Sakura sighs.
Naruto rolls his eyes and stands up. "So harsh. Man you really got me there." he muttered sarcastically.
"Naruto, Sakura." Sai calls out, making the arguing teen turn towards him. Kagome blinked and turned to the pale teen next to her. "D-Do you mind if I join your conversation?" he asked. Naruto and Sakura glance at each other confused before looking at Sai. "I mean well, I read in a book about how to make others feel at ease around you. The book said to call out to people casually or to use nicknames and terms of endearment. It said doing that would bring familiarly and might even lead to friendship." Kagome's heart melted and she hugged the socially awkward teen, making Naruto and Sakura laugh as their former teacher cooed over Sai's 'cuteness'.
"Gee, Sai. I never knew you thought about stuff like that." Naruto says chuckling slightly.
"So that's what you were doing at the library." Sakura said with a knowing smile.
Sai who escaped Kagome, nods his head. "I've been trying to figure out nickname for all of you. But I just couldn't really think of any, so I'll try to be more casual." he said as he walked towards them.
"Listen, you don't need to put so much thought into it. Just let that stuff come naturally." Naruto grinned.
"Usually a nickname or pet name come from someone's personality. Let's take Naruto for example, you could go with Dimwit, Birdbrain or Stupid Naruto." Sakura said.
Kagome rolled her eyes, "You've got it wrong Sakura, it's not either of those." she said making Naruto grin at Kagome. "It's Dumbass."
Naruto deflated at that/ "C'mon Sakura, Kagome-nee, you two are killing me." he whined. Sai put a hand to his chin in thought, his eyes turn towards Sakura, making her blush.
"Why are you staring at me like that, Sai?" she asked.
"I understand, thanks for the advice, Ugly." Sai says, calling Sakura by his nickname for her. Kagome blinked at Sai before bursting into laughter. "Oh, Kami-sama. That's hilarious!" she laughed. Naruto quickly grabs Sakura by the waist, preventing the Chunin from killing Sai.
"I think you crossed the line with that one Sai." Naruto says as he struggles to keeps Sakura still. Sai tilts his head to the side in confusion. Sakura broke free of Naruto's hold and punched both Sai and Naruto.
At the hospital after Kagome had calmed Sakura down, Kagome knocked on the door of Kakashi's room. Hearing a 'Come in' she opens the door. Kagome steps inside with the three teens behind her. Kagome glared daggers at Kakashi, seeing him read another Make-out Paradise book. "Kakashi…" she growled. Kakashi looks up from his book to see his wife glaring at him. Kakashi slowly closed his book, and held the book out to Kagome. Kagome walks over to him and took the book from him. "You're such a fucking pervert." she growled as she put the book into her pouch.
"So you're the new team member." Kakashi said, turning his attention to the three teens. "Sai, was it? Nice to meet you."
"Sir." Sai says rubbing his cheek from where Sakura hit him. Naruto also rubbing his cheek. Kakashi waves Sakura over and asks if the two were fighting, making Sakura wave away his concerns. "So this is Kakashi Hatake." Sai thought to himself, as he stared at Kakashi. "Legendary to those even in the foundation."
Sakura looks over at Naruto, and sighs. "Naruto." she called, getting his attention. Naruto nodded his head, "Kakashi-sensei, on our last missi-"
"I know." Kakashi interrupts the teen, "Yamato told us everything, and about Sasuke too."
"We're running out of time to bring him home." Naruto muttered sadly. "At this rate, we could lose him for good. But with my powers, there's just no way I would be able to bring him back now. Sasuke has gotten way too strong for me."
"Well in that case, I guess you have to get stronger than that." Kakashi comments, making Naruto's eyes widen.
"Yeah but," Sakura said, drawing attention to herself, "The way he's grown, Sasuke has developed way too fast, his growth isn't natural. I spoke with Tsunade-sama, she thinks they might be using a forbidden jutsu, or even drug enhancement. After all they do have Kabuto with them. No book in world could explain the kind of person that would who performs experiments on human beings."
"Which is why a smart thing for you to do is grow yourselves as well." Kagome said. Sakura eyes go to Kagome, "How would we do that?"
"Do you think I've only thing I have been doing is laying here doing nothing the whole time?" Kakashi asks. "I've been brainstorming, and I have an idea. However the idea is more suited for Naruto. Or I should say, only work for Naruto. In fact if this training pans out Naruto, your power may even surpass mine." Naruto's eyes widen at that.
"I'd surpass even you Kakashi-sensei?" he asked.
Kakashi nodded his head, "That's right. I'll be working with you one on one the whole time. And it'll be training like you've never experienced before."
"What are we going to be working on?"
"We're going to create an ultimate Ninjutsu just for you. A brand new jutsu even more powerful than the Rasengan. But in order to obtain that kind of power, you'll have to enormous amount of time and intense effort." Kakashi told the blonde teen. "You can't get that kind of strength in a couple of days like the hero of some pulp novel. And it won't be like learning a pre-existing Jutsu like the Rasengan, that can be broken down and taught in stages."
"An enormous amount of time? Are you people listening to me?! I just said we're almost out of time! Sasuke's gonna-"
"If you let me finish. I've figured out a way to do it faster." Kakashi says annoyed.
"How?"
"Well…" The door opening interrupts Kakashi. In the doorway stands Team Asuma.
"How you feeling today, Kakashi?" Asuma asked. Ino glared up at her team leader with annoyance, "Asuma-Sensei! You really should try knocking first, you know!"
"What's up guys?" Choji asked while eating a bag of chips. Team Asuma stepped inside the room, and Shikamaru smirked at the sight of his friends. "Look who's here! It's Naruto and Sakura! I guess your mission must be...huh?" His eyes moved to the quiet Sai standing next to Kagome. "I know you. You're that guy from…" he trailed off with a growl. Choji's eyes widen and swallows his chips at the sight of Sai. "What guy?" Ino asked as she blushes lightly.
Kagome rolls her eyes at the conversing teens before looking at Asuma, "Did you have to bring them in here? There isn't a lot of space as there is." she said with annoyance. Asuma chuckles at her before looking at the teens. "You have a point. Why don't you guys head over to the barbeque restaurant? And Team Kakashi, you're more than welcome to join us if you'd like to."
"Barbecue?! Woo-hoo!"
"I second that!"
"I need to talk to Kakashi alone about some business. In the meantime, the barbecue's on me, okay?" Asuma chuckled at their enthusiasm.
Naruto blinked in disbelief before walking to Kakashi's bedside. "Hey! Wait a sec! Sensei? What gives? What happened to that whole conversation we were having about my special training?!"
Kakashi tilted his head to the side before giving Naruto his classic eye smile, "Oh, that's right. Hmmm. We'll get back to it later."
"Huh? Later? But it was getting good!"
"Well we can't start anything while I'm still in the hospital." Kakashi said. Kagome wrapped her arm around Naruto's shoulder, "Don't be so impatient, Naruto." she told him. Naruto pouted and followed his friends out of the hospital room. Kagome rolled her eyes before looking at Kakashi. "I'm going with the kids, you stay here and have your 'manly talk' with Asuma." she informed him, using air quotes when she said 'manly talk', she bent down and kissed his cheek before following the teens to the restaurant, shutting the door behind her.
At the restaurant, Kagome sat down next to Naruto, making said teen turn towards her. "Kagome-nee what took you so long?" he asked. Kagome ignored his question before looking around. "Where's Shikamaru? I thought he was here with us?" she asked.
Choji looked up from flipping the meat, "He said he had to go home and help his father find antlers to use on some kind of medicine." Choji said, wiping his mouth.
Ino who had started putting meat on her plate, hummed thoughtfully. "That's weird. He always showed up to celebrate successful This is a first." she said. Kagome rolls her eyes as ignores Ino yelling at Choji. She puts some meat on her plate, she looked up when she heard Ino tell Choji that they have to introduce themselves to Sai. Kagome leans over to the now sweating Naruto, "This going to be entertaining." she muttered to him. Naruto chuckled weakly as Sai set his chopsticks down.
"So um, hi there. I'm Choji Akimichi from the Akimichi Clan." Choji introduced himself, wiping his mouth. "And uh, you're name's Sai, isn't it?"
"That's right, you uh…" Sai said, trying to think of a nickname. "Fa-" Naruto's hand covers his mouth preventing Sai from saying anything.
"Sai, Fatso is absolutely a taboo word in front of Choji. You got it?" Naruto hissed out. Sai nodded head, and Naruto sat back down. Choji blinked at looks at Sai, "Hey, were you about to say something?" Sakura waved her hand dismissing Choji's question. "No, it was nothing! Forget it!" Choji nodded his head and goes back to eating. Kagome chuckles before starting to eat.
Ino looked over a Sai and smiles. "Anyways, I'm Ino Yamanaka, my family owns the Yamanaka flower shop. Nice to meet you!" she said introducing herself. Sai smiled friendly at the blonde Kunoichi. "When it comes to women, stating their personality traits too bluntly, might anger them. So perhaps I can avoid that by saying the opposite of what I think." Sai thought recalling Sakura's reaction to his nickname.
Sakura chuckled quietly, before smirking. "Don't say it, Sai." Sakura thought to herself, while Inner Sakura said, "Go on say it! Let her have it good! Just like you did to me!"
"A pleasure. You um. You uh...Beautiful."
Kagome laughed and watched as Sakura tries to kill Sai for his comment, and Naruto tried to calm her down.
A few days later, at the hospital Tsunade deemed Kakashi fit to leave after his check up. Kagome sitting on the bed and Sakura standing behind the Hokage. "Hmm, you seem fine." Tsunade observed. "You're cleared to leave the hospital today."
"By any chance, this isn't because you want me to hurry up and get my, baggage out of here is it?" Kakashi asked with an amused tone. The four turned around to see a snoring Naruto on the other bed. Sakura glared at her sleeping teammate.
"Well yes, there's that too."
"That fool Naruto has been camping out in this hospital room for days." Sakura flatly stated. "Just so he could resume training the minute you recover." Kakashi shook his head amused before looking at Tsunade.
"Actually, I was kind of hoping I could take it easy and recuperate at home for a few days. Before getting back into it." he sighed then, "Since Kagome has taken all of my reading material anyway, I suppose I might as well start his training again." Kagome rolled her eyes at him. "Suck it up. I'm not having the father of my child reading porn." she snorted.
"Rasen…!" Naruto yelled in his sleep, making everyone turn toward him. Sakura turned and glared at the sleeping teen. "Hey, you idiot! Wake Up!" Sakura yelled in his ear after walking towards him. Naruto sat up instantly, holding his pillow he had been curled around. He squinted his eyes at Sakura, sleepily. "Hey there, Ugly." he said drowsily.
"Cha! What did you say Naruto?!"
Naruto whimpers in fear as Sakura shakes her fist at him. Kagome sighed and grabbed Sakura's fist as it was going to make contact with Naruto's head. "Knock it off you two." she growled. Sakura pouted and took her hand back from Kagome. Naruto looked up at Kagome with adoration and gratitude. "Kagome-nee." he said with tears in his eyes.
Kagome eyebrow twitched before she brought her own fist down on Naruto's head. "Get dressed and head over to the training ground." she orders. Naruto nods his head and does as he was told. Kagome then turned to Kakashi, "You." Kagome said, making the man shiver. "Get dressed, go to the training grounds and teach him, before I kill the both of you." she told him darkly. Kakashi nodded his head quickly, not wanting to test Kagome's ire. An angry Kagome is bad, but a three month pregnant, hormonal and angry Kagome is even worse. As Kakashi gets dressed, Kagome then turned to Tsunade and Sakura with a smile, making the two blink at her sudden mood change.
"You two go on, I'll take care of these two." she says brightly. Tsunade and Sakura nodded their heads, and leave the hospital room leaving the Hatake couple. Kagome turned to Kakashi as he zips up his flak jacket. Kagome rolled her eyes at him, "Stop pouting Kakashi, the faster you teach the idiot, the faster you could rest." she tells him. Kakashi looks at her and sighed, wanting to go home and find his book Kagome had hidden from him. Kakashi grabbed Kagome by her hips and pulled her to his chest.
"Are you going to watch?" he asked her, staring down at her. Kagome lifted her head and nodded her head. "I might as well, I have nothing else to do." she muttered with a frown. Kakashi chuckled and kissed her forehead. "Let's get going then."